3rd International Workshop on Security Issues in Concurrency (SecCo'05) August 21-22, 2005, San Francisco, CA Affiliated to CONCUR 2005, August 23-26, 2005 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~mbc/secco05/ Workshop Organizers: Michael Backes (IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland) Andre Scedrov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) SCOPE AND TOPICS The 3rd International Workshop on Security Issues in Concurrency (SecCo'05) follows the success of SecCo'03 (held in conjunction with ICALP'03) and SecCo'04 (held in conjunction with CONCUR'04). New networking technologies require the definition of models and languages adequate for the design and management of new classes of applications. Innovations are moving in two directions: on the one hand, the Internet which supports wide area applications, on the other hand, smaller networks of mobile and portable devices which support applications based on a dynamically reconfigurable communication structure. In both cases, the challenge is to develop applications while at design time there is no knowledge of the availability and/or location of the involved entities. Coordination models, languages and middlewares, which advocate a distinct separation between the internal behaviour of the entities and their interaction, represent a promising approach. However, due to the openness of these systems, new critical aspects come into play, such as the need to deal with malicious components or with a hostile environment. Current research on network security issues (e.g. secrecy, authentication, etc.) usually focuses on opening cryptographic point-to-point tunnels. Therefore, the proposed solutions in this area are not always exploitable to support the end-to-end secure interaction between entities whose availability or location is not known beforehand. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: authentication integrity privacy confidentiality access control in peer-to-peer systems denial of service service availability safety aspects fault tolerance coordination models mobile ad-hoc networks agent-based infrastructures global computing context-aware computing ubiquitous/pervasive comp. component-based systems Program Committee: Michael Backes IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland (PC Co-chair) Riccardo Focardi (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy) Virgil Gligor (U Maryland, USA) Andy Gordon (Microsoft Research) Joshua Guttman (MITRE Corporation, USA) Chris Hankin (Imperial College, UK) Peeter Laud (Tartu University, Estonia) Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Andre Scedrov University of Pennsylvania, USA (PC Co-chair) Jan Vitek (Purdue University, USA) Gianlugi Zavaratto (Università di Bologna, Italy) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions may either be short abstracts or full papers. The type of submission should be indicated on the title page. Papers should be in Portable Document Format (.pdf) or in Postscript Format (.ps), at most 5 pages for short abstract and 12 pages for full papers excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font, single column format, and reasonable margins on 8.5"x11" or A4 paper), and at most 20 pages total. We request the submissions be in US letter paper size (not A4) if at all possible. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Workshop proceedings will be published in the ENTCS series (Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science). We intend to publish a journal special issue inviting full versions of papers selected among those presented at the workshop. Detailed instructions how to submit papers to SecCo'05 will be posted here soon. For any questions, please contact the program chairs, at secco05-chairs-public@zurich.ibm.com Short Abstract Submissions due: May 23, 2005, 10:00 PST Full Paper Submissions due: May 30, 2005, 10:00 PST Acceptance notification: July 7, 2005 Pre-Final version due: July 20, 2005 Meeting date: August 21-22, 2005 Final version due: September 20, 2005